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A few martins collecting nesting material earlier this year. Had to lay in the mud to get these but got lucky when they came very close.

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I think you got what you pay for (and looking at the photos you got them on reasonable price:)!
Your luck was mostly on the last shot - did you track it coming to you from some distance? If not - that's a lot of luck! And if it was actually taking off - I don't know what to say...
 
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Thanks! For some reason my 'story' didn't get included...I started bird photography as hobby in January this year ( because of covid restricting my usual travel photogrpahy) and my goto place for birds apart from my garden is the Rietvlei Nature Reserve 10min drive from my home...there are more than 200 species to be found there plus some animals like rhino, eland, cheetah, zebra etc.
"Rietvlei Nature Reserve 10min drive from my home."
You are just in the spot for plenty of photos!
Please, make more photos of the Greater Striped Swallow - you posted one on page 1235 - such a beautiful bird!
 
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Spent about two hours sitting with this female Northern Harrier. Just before the sun set she did some stretching.
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R5 600 II w/1.4X 1/200 : f/9 : ISO 800
 
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I think you got what you pay for (and looking at the photos you got them on reasonable price:)!
Your luck was mostly on the last shot - did you track it coming to you from some distance? If not - that's a lot of luck! And if it was actually taking off - I don't know what to say...
Thanks. It was taking off. I got used to focusing a little to the front then hitting the shutter as they took flight.
 
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I gave my wife the R6 + RF 100-400mm today, and she loves them. Here are a couple of her first shots: a Mute Swan Cygnet close up, and a Mute Swan flying at the very far side of the lake, just occupying a few pixels.

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Two very nice shots. Well done, Alan.
It's well done my wife. I quickly showed her the two back focus buttons and set up the C1, C2 and C3 modes for different exposure situations and she immediately took to it. I am really impressed by the R6, and this 100-400 delivers the goods.
 
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